oh please i need a time machine..., anyone? please, please,

Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:13 am

Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:35 am

Looks like Tucson.

Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:45 am

Looks like a shame to me.

What is that aircraft, in the upper, right hand side of the photo?
The XB-19??? DC-4E??? Or is it just the light/shadows?

Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:59 am

I don't think ANY lights and shadows would make anything look that big that wasn't that big to begin with. Whatever it is, it's L-A-R-G-E. :roll:

Mudge the visually impaired :shock:

Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:04 am

i saw that one.., it dwarfs the B-29's around it!

I was thinking C-124 Globemaster.,. but the rear fuselage looks angled up too much.

Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:11 am

Cubs wrote:The XB-19???Or is it just the light/shadows?

I think your right Cubs. If it is the XB-19 that would date the photo between Aug. 1946 and June 1949
when it was scrapped.

Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:16 am

Is this a different shot of the Tucson.., or is this Kingman?

Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:17 am

XB-19...without a doubt.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... apping.jpg

Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:44 am

ahhhh.., the XB-19.., when BIGGER meant better!!!

Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:31 pm

The one with the 17s is Kingman

Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:33 pm

I see the XB-19 too!

Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:13 pm

Hey the330thbg,

I normally don't, but I'll lend you my time machin....... wait.... where'd it go? Ahhh.... someone stole my time machine....!!!

Sorry, man.

-David

Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:37 pm

Check out the B-29 in the lower right corner, having both gun turrets and black undersides; a rarity to have both. Anyone know how many in the Marianas had that treatment?

Interesting there is no bomb group Bomb Group on the tail of that one.

A lot of planes from the 444th BG 58th BW Tinian.

Can't wait to see Scott's analysis...

Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:56 pm

the 314th BW based at North Field Guam, began to paint the majority of their undersides matt and or shiny black by early August 1945.

This aircraft made a lot of bombruns, then below the 'V' is a POW supply drop as well.

Contrary to popular belief they kept their armament as well.., but cut back on the amount of ammunition they would carry.

Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:33 pm

Wow..that pic shows just how bit the XB-19 really was! What a shame it wasn't preserved. That and the XB-15 would look great in the NMUSAF's experimental collection.

<disclaimer> This is not in any way meant to slam the NMUSAF. Those birds were scrapped long before the museum as we know it even existed.

SN